Famous Quotes
- I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
- Marcel Duchamp on Art
- I don't have anything to say about other people's art and their work.
- Dolly Parton on Art
- I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat on Art
- I don't need the money, dear. I work for art.
- Maria Callas on Art
- I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
- Henri Matisse on Art
- I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
- Jean-Michel Basquiat on Art
- I don't think any movie or any book or any work of art can solve the stalemate in the Middle East today. But it's certainly worth a try.
- Steven Spielberg on Art
- I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
- Keith Haring on Art
- I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
- Christina Aguilera on Art
- I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
- Francis Ford Coppola on Art
- I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
- Ernst Fischer on Art
- I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe on Art
- I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
- Stephen Fry on Art
- I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
- Georgia O'Keeffe on Art
- I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
- Freddie Mercury on Art
- I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
- I hate art auctions.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
- Salma Hayek on Art
- I have a soft spot for art that, in terms of subject matter and material, is in bad taste.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
- Camillo Di Cavour on Art
- I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
- Salma Hayek on Art
- I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
- Jackson Pollock on Art
- I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain.
- Paul Cezanne on Art
- I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
- Jack Nicholson on Art
- I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form.
- Shia LaBeouf on Art
- I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
- Quentin Tarantino on Art
- I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.
- Daniel Radcliffe on Art
- I like that the art world isn't regulated.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
- Madeleine L'Engle on Art
- I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.
- Roy Lichtenstein on Art
- I love art dealers. In some ways, they're my favorite people in the art world. Really. I love that they put their money where their taste is, create their own aesthetic universes, support artists, employ people, and do all of this while letting us see art for free. Many are visionaries.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.
- Christina Aguilera on Art
- I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.
- Ellie Goulding on Art
- I love to collect modern art.
- Maria Sharapova on Art
- I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
- Walt Disney on Art
- I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- I owe much to mother. She had an expert's understanding, but also approached art emotionally.
- David Rockefeller on Art
- I paint with shapes.
- Alexander Calder on Art
- I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Art
- I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
- Conrad Hall on Art
- I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.
- Robert Indiana on Art
- I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
- Oscar Wilde on Art
- I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
- Walt Whitman on Art
- I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.
- Jerry Saltz on Art
- I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
- Nelson Mandela on Art
- I think about my work every minute of the day.
- Jeff Koons on Art
- I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.
- Jodie Foster on Art
- I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov on Art
- I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
- Anthony Kiedis on Art
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